Murray 'starting from scratch' in Washington
If I only play one or two tournaments and then take a break for a month, it's just hard to get into that routine", Murray said. Murray's career tally of 45 ATP World Tour singles titles includes a pair of victories at Wimbledon and one at the US Open.

Mobile, Nokia sign $3.5 billion 5G network deal
T-Mobile, which is the third-largest operator in the USA behind Verizon and AT&T , agreed to merge with rival Sprint in April. Nokia on Monday followed up the announcement by reiterating its outlook for 2018.

Kansas firefighters head west to help battle wildfires
Cal Fire said that "steep terrain, erratic winds, and previously unburned fuels are contributing to spot fire potential". A firetruck rushes past flames that overran a road at the River Fire ( Mendocino Complex ) in Lakeport, California, US.

Apple’s Next iPad Pro Might Ditch the Headphone Jack
The incorporation of the new touch sensor technology is also the reason manufacturers can go for bezels as low as just 0.5mm. This would mean that the tablets will feature a beveled design similar to the iPhone SE - however, this is unlikely.

Mandhana smashes joint-fastest fifty in women T20s
The southpaw is the first Indian to play in the KIA Super League which is England's flagship tournament for women's T20. The left-hand cricketer from India enrolled her name in the cricket book in a six-over game of KIA .

RBI monetary policy: Repo rate hiked by 25 bps
This is likely to lead to an increase in the interest bank customers pay on loans, be it home loan, auto loan or personal loan. The reverse repo rate has been hiked to 6.25%, the RBI announced after its three-day Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.

Apple hits the $1T milestone

Apple hit the US$1 trillion mark when its shares reached an all-time high of US$207.05 around midday in NY (4am NZT).

The gains came after the iPhone maker reported strong earnings late Tuesday that prompted a two-day rally in the share price.

Apple Inc became the first US-based company with a market value of $1 trillion, four decades after it was co-founded by Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage and later revolutionized the worlds of computing, music and mobile communications.

Other companies have come close to the mark, but no public USA company has hit a $1 trillion valuation.

Amazon is in second place at $866bn, followed by Alphabet, the parent company of Google, at $843bn.

Hit parade:Apple pioneered personal computing back in the 1980s but almost went bankrupt in the 1990s.

Trump receives new letter from Kim Jong Un
Another method of identification was through chest x-rays that were on file for those who served in the Korean War, McKeague said. At the summit, North Korea had agreed to eventually denuclearize in return for unspecified security guarantees from the U.S.

Apart from iPhone and services, another growth area is accessories where it gained 37% more revenue year on year. But Apple is, of course, unique, and it has made its run to $1 trillion on the back of exactly one incredibly profitable product, the iPhone. That was Chinese oil and gas giant PetroChina, which briefly topped $1 trillion in market value with its IPO in 2007, before the share price declined. It now accounts for 4 percent of the S&P 500. The company has bought roughly a quarter of its own shares since 2012. "Given our confidence in Apple's future, we are very happy to announce that our Board has approved a new $100 billion share repurchase authorization and a 16 percent increase in our quarterly dividend", he added.

For one thing, the marketing guru behind the success of the Macintosh computer wishes he hadn't turned down an offer from founder Steve Jobs to return to Apple. The online sales company now has a market value of $880 billion dollars.

In recent years, the financial world considered Amazon and Apple to be in race toward the milestone.

Trump demands Russian Federation probe end 'right now'
Sessions, who has recused himself from supervising the Mueller investigation, didn't immediately respond to the president's tweet. Trump has periodically launched barrages of public attacks on Sessions related to the special counsel's investigation.

The feat has of course been a race because the stock market's top 10 is now dominated by tech companies, with Amazon topping $900 billion in market cap and Google and Microsoft worth more than $800 billion.